The Past

Alicia’s POV

The study was silent.

I hummed, clasping my fingers together and tried to not fidget at my spot i the couch.

I had promised Mikael I would be patient and sit but that alone would not stop me from worrying.

They were my children, after all.

The memory of Mikael looking dashingly at me replayed in my memory.

“Trust me.”

Trust.

I didn’t know if I could.

I let out a heavy breath, my eyes flitting back to the laptop that lay open, the picture of my two boys, my world, with Andy’s torso in the frame.

I reached for it and curiously clicked out of the photo to reveal…

Nothing.

I scowled.

Was this a burner laptop?

My curiosity began to burn and I wondered what exactly I would find from Mikael’s own laptop. This would be interesting and enough to distract me.

I began to move the cursor over the screen and clicked on the files icon.

My skills at hacking had helped me numerous times once I actually began to learn. I was a quick student, even now, and it hasn’t been hard to make a nam